SMITH, Charles.

£875 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Three Tracts on the Corn-Trade and Corn-Laws. First edition of these three important tracts on the corn trade, by the son of a mill-owner of Croydon, in Surrey. Smith argued that in a country largely dependent on domestic supplies, price variations were the natural result of good or bad seasons, following a shortage of domestically produced corn in 1757, which roused public feeling against the perceived avarice of the farmers and mill owners.

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